<p>When D applied to Barnard, I was surprised to hear from admissions directly that they did not unweight grades or use just the 5 academic areas to determine a recalculated GPA. They viewed each student’s gpa as is, but obviously could determine whether grades were weighted or not. So it depends on individual schools and is something that can be asked for specific schools before applying. Would also be interesting for a candidate to know what a school’s average gpa is based on in the common data set. Weighted or unweighted?</p>